Putin holds a meeting with Kazakh President Tokayev in Moscow
2 year agoLavrov now saying Budapest memorandum didn't apply because Maidan revolution was neo-Nazi fascist and the memorandum demanded respect of national minorities
Britain: Russia must return its military build-up on Ukraine's borders to stop tension
Josep Borrell Fontelles:I replied on behalf of the EU Member States to the letters they received from Minister Lavrov. Tensions and disagreements must be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy. We call on Russia to de-escalate and to reverse its military build-up in and around Ukraine and in Belarus
2 year agoThe first of a number of B-52 bombers, callsign 'HATE14', is now arriving in the United Kingdom and is currently west of Glasgow and descending for RAF Fairford
Lavrov following a meeting with the head of the British Foreign Office: it is like a conversation between a dumb and a deaf. Compares talks with frozen ground for invasion of Russian tanks into Ukraine
Lavrov: Russia may advise non-essential staff of its diplomatic missions in Ukraine to leave the country
2 year agoDutch parliament votes in favor of motion calling on the government to freeze the assets of Putin and his oligarchs to stop an invasion in Ukraine
Exercises of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea do not interfere with merchant ships - Peskov
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry: We strongly protest Russia's decision to block parts of the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait under the pretext of naval drills. The unprecedentedly large area of exercises essentially disables international navigation in both seas
2 year agoNATO SecGen Stoltenberg with PM Johnson describes Russia's military build-up as a "dangerous moment" for Europe. He says, "the number of Russian forces is going up. The warning time for a possible attack is going down"
2 year agoNATO Secretary General warns that Russia has massed "more than 125,000 combat-ready troops" around Ukraine "The readiness and number of Russian forces is going up. The warning time for an attack is going down" - @jensstoltenberg
2 year agoA convoy of Russian military equipment was spotted in Naroulya (Gomel region, Belarus) today. The column included: recovery vehicle (REM KL), T-72B tank of the 1989 model, mobile reconnaissance point PRP-4 on the BMP chassis
Ben Wallace heads to Moscow tomorrow for talks with defence minister & key Putin ally Sergey Shoigu. He'll be accompanied by Tony Radakin and commander of field army Lt Gen Ralph Wooddisse. Wallace tells us today we need to look at "lessons from the [ending of the] Cold War"
Russian FSB claims it detained network of 14 suspects making false bomb threats, and accused 18y.o. citizen of Ukraine from Volyn region as organizer of network
2 year agoMilitary convoy filmed in Ivnya, Belgorod region
2 year agoMilitary convoy filmed in Gorshechnoye, Kursk region
Liz Truss: We cannot ignore the increase in Russian forces on the border with Ukraine
British Foreign Secretary: We are concerned about the Russian military build-up on the border with Ukraine
British Foreign Secretary: An outbreak of war in Ukraine would be a disaster for all sides
Meeting between Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Lavrov started in Moscow
Ukraine's president denounces Russian-Belarusian military exercises as a means of psychological pressure
British Defense Minister: The government is ready with a package of sanctions against Russia and will present them to Parliament
Polish Defense Minister @mblaszczak @MON_GOV_PL: Ukraine has been surrounded, the south is the annexation of Crimea and rally of troops there, rally in the east along the border and now exercises in Belarus with the participation of Russian troops, from the north
2 year agoFire at Sheremetyevo Airport. The fire broke out in parking lot No. 208. A short circuit occurred while charging the on-board batteries. No damage to aircraft
2 year agoMilitary convoy filmed in Kursk
2 year agoToyota Hilux pickups from the Special Operations Forces (SSO) units of the Russian Federation. Smolensk
2 year agoNew military camp deployed near Staryy Oskol
Britain sending another 1,000 troops to Poland "to support a humanitarian response in the region should it be needed" per UK government PM @BorisJohnson also traveling to Brussels, Warsaw for discussions with @NATO SecGen @jensstoltenberg & Polish leaders re Russia-Ukraine
2 year agoRussian Navy Northern Fleet's Kola based 121st Landing Ship Brigade vessels Russian Navy Project775 Ropucha class LSTM Georgy Pobedonosets 016 & Olenegorsky Gornyak 012 and Project 11711 Ivan Gren class Pyotr Morgunov 117 transited Bosphorus and entered the Black Sea
